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“Gangnam Style” star Psy was praised by South Korea’s president and slammed by its state broadcaster all on the same day Thursday, as his new song “Gentleman” made more than just musical waves. While President Park...

North Korea laid out conditions Thursday for any talks with Seoul or Washington, including the withdrawal of UN sanctions and a guaranteed end to South Korea-US joint military drills. “If the US and the South enemies… genuinely want...

US Secretary of State John Kerry blamed the Iranian government for a deadly attack on an opposition camp in Iraq, and voiced fears of another assault. “We are deeply engaged in this. I am very concerned about the potential of another...

Research published in the May issue of American Politics Research has confirmed what many have already suspected. Attempting to increase voter turnout through the use of social pressure can be a harmful campaign strategy, resulting in backlash...

A juror will be prosecuted for contempt of court after allegedly writing on Facebook that he wanted to “fuck up a paedophile” during the trial of a convicted child sex offender. Kasim Davey was discharged as a juror in the trial in...

The senators, Democrat and Republican, who killed the bipartisan compromise amendment on background checks for gun sales explained their opposition in terms of principle. But gun reformers will view it more as political cowardice on the part of...

Apple shares have dipped to a 16-month low as concern that muted phone and tablet sales may cause the company to miss its own revenue targets. In morning trading, Apple’s stock fell below $400 for the first time since December 2011. The...

US authorities have arrested a suspect over mailings laced with the deadly poison ricin to President Barack Obama and a senator, officials said. “Today at approximately 5:15 pm (2215 GMT), FBI special agents arrested Paul Kevin Curtis, the...

US Secretary of State John Kerry pledged Wednesday that nobody had lied about last year’s attack on a US mission in Libya that killed four Americans, and he urged lawmakers to move on. The former senator found the tables turned as he was...

A Chinese student has been identified as the third person to have died in the Boston marathon bombings. Boston University confirmed that a statistics student, Lu Lingzi, 23, died when she was watching the race on Monday. China’s state...

US Muslims are “holding their breath” as the investigation into the Boston Marathon attacks develops, amid fears of increased racial profiling and attacks if an Islamic link is confirmed, according to advocate groups. Investigators...

An defiant and angry President Barack Obama Wednesday said the defeat of gun reforms in the US Senate was “shameful,” accused senators of caving to the gun lobby, and promised to fight on. A deeply emotional Obama — in...

This week, we reported that the Food and Drug Administration left medicines on the market for years after discovering they were approved based on fraudulent studies by Cetero Research, which did testing for drug companies worldwide. Turns out...

Twitter on Wednesday began to allow ads to be targeted at users based on the words written in ‘tweets’ and messages forwarded to followers at the popular social network. Previously, contents of Twitter messages relied on algorithms...